I watched the Belmont Stakes, just because I knew exactly when post time was and the race only takes two minutes of my life. I barely cared, but I did (kind of) want California Chrome to win the triple crown. The owner should have voiced the complaint before the race. Not because it would have made a difference, but because he wouldn't seem like a sore loser.

A lot of experts knew California Chrome wouldn't win because of the distance. That's why he lost. Period.

As a typical NPR listener, I was so shocked to hear such plebeian vulgarity uttered in the dulcet tones of All Things Considered's Robert Siegel that I spit my Chardonnay halfway across the room. If I owned a TV, it would have sprayed all over the screen! But I don't own a TV.

kind of off subject but, I'm getting tired of Morning Edition and All Things Considered doing so many stories about the Middle East. I get it that there is a lot happening over there but geeze report on something else please. I seems my whole drive time is filled with what is happening over there. I've started to turn the channel when one of those stories comes on.

The whole thing seemed to me to be set up for California Chrome to win the Triple Crown...everything I've read through the Triple Crown was saying that California Chrome was racing against inferior horses.

semiotix:As a typical NPR listener, I was so shocked to hear such plebeian vulgarity uttered in the dulcet tones of All Things Considered's Robert Siegel that I spit my Chardonnay halfway across the room. If I owned a TV, it would have sprayed all over the screen! But I don't own a TV.

/I kid because I love

I'd say you owe me a keyboard, but I happened to be eating french cut green beans at the time.

stupiddream:kind of off subject but, I'm getting tired of Morning Edition and All Things Considered doing so many stories about the Middle East. I get it that there is a lot happening over there but geeze report on something else please. I seems my whole drive time is filled with what is happening over there. I've started to turn the channel when one of those stories comes on.

It's a pretty evenly mixed bag. I guess you're just a lot more sensitive to Middle East stories I suppose.

browntimmy:How about we just stop caring about things that should have gone out of style 90 years ago?"Hurr, let's all get dressed up and go look at them horseys run fast."

You are free not to care. "Oh noes NPR is reporting on a sport I don't care about! Hurr Durr couldn't that time be spent on another couple inane interview questions to an obscure jazz musician or performance artist?!?"

There's an ethnic group in China called the Uighurs. It sounds like "wiggers". This group became newsworthy a few months back, and there were several reports about them.

While it lasted, it was quite humourous to hear Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce present regular news stories with a straight face about the Wiggers doing this, or the Wiggers doing that, or the Wiggers being a decent people who just want the freedom to be Wiggers without interference from Beijing.

The BBC has recently changed the pronunciation guide to a purposely mispronounced "hooey-gi-jars".

Debeo Summa Credo:browntimmy: How about we just stop caring about things that should have gone out of style 90 years ago?"Hurr, let's all get dressed up and go look at them horseys run fast."

You are free not to care. "Oh noes NPR is reporting on a sport I don't care about! Hurr Durr couldn't that time be spent on another couple inane interview questions to an obscure jazz musician or performance artist?!?"

Outside of a controversy, how much time would you say the majority of people typically focus on the sport of horse racing?

stupiddream:kind of off subject but, I'm getting tired of Morning Edition and All Things Considered doing so many stories about the Middle East. I get it that there is a lot happening over there but geeze report on something else please. I seems my whole drive time is filled with what is happening over there. I've started to turn the channel when one of those stories comes on.

News should be about things that are out of the ordinary. War, strife, bombings, etc. are all everyday occurrences in the Middle East. The day nothing awful happens there, that's news.

letrole:While it lasted, it was quite humourous to hear Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce present regular news stories with a straight face about the Wiggers doing this, or the Wiggers doing that, or the Wiggers being a decent people who just want the freedom to be Wiggers without interference from Beijing.

1) some time ago, there was unrest in "Bihac", in Bosnia or whatever. Pronounced "BEEE-hotch". this was about the same time every Snoop Dogg song had him sayihng "BEEEEE-yotch". hilarity ensued.

2) howard stern played a clip ad nauseum of tom brokaw reporting on a plane crash in some russian town "Buchalki", so with his weird way of talking it sounded like "bukkakke" (whatever that is. *ahem*). I think they made a song of him saying "buchalki" over porn starts moaning and groaning.

browntimmy:Debeo Summa Credo: browntimmy: How about we just stop caring about things that should have gone out of style 90 years ago?"Hurr, let's all get dressed up and go look at them horseys run fast."

You are free not to care. "Oh noes NPR is reporting on a sport I don't care about! Hurr Durr couldn't that time be spent on another couple inane interview questions to an obscure jazz musician or performance artist?!?"

Outside of a controversy, how much time would you say the majority of people typically focus on the sport of horse racing?

The 105,000* there with me on Saturday pay attention to horse racing. As do the millions who watch each leg of the triple crown and the breeders cup.

Don't get me wrong, I know this is fark and it's absolutely acceptable to make fun of other people's interests. I look forward to a month of mocking soccer fans for their interest in undeniably the most boring sport imaginible in the near future.

But "how about we not pay attention to the thing I don't like" is just tiresome.

The bleeping seems to be getting more common. Just yesterday I was listening to the local classic rock station, which has generally had a reputation for not giving a crap. They bleeped the "god" out of the word "goddamn" in "Life in the Fast Lane." I almost wet myself.

stupiddream:kind of off subject but, I'm getting tired of Morning Edition and All Things Considered doing so many stories about the Middle East. I get it that there is a lot happening over there but geeze report on something else please. I seems my whole drive time is filled with what is happening over there. I've started to turn the channel when one of those stories comes on.

I get sick of it too. I'm not sure NPR is really unique in focusing their international coverage on Europe (where little is happening) and the Middle East (where the same old thing is happening), but most American networks give so little time to international politics that it seems that way.

The BBC, of course, is the place to go to for international news. Admittedly, they focus on the former British colonies, but that's a wide swath of the world. And look for "The World" on your public radio station, they have fairly good international coverage.